Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Your friend is your needs answered.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.